SteveUprising Curse of the Last Emperor, 2 players<br>
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I love this game, but it's just a little off balance. Not so bad that it ruins the game but it's just... swingy. This is a moment where we had five legions dropped on us mid game and thought we were done for. We managed to get several of the enemies to fight due to good placement and a lucky tile flip, though, and then won some critical turn 2 combats which left just getting efficiently through turn 3. I was trailing a bit so my partner sandbagged points for me and we ended up winning by ~10.<br>
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Uprising is so close to perfect, but it's just missing a couple key wrench tightens to make the game a touch less swingy. Swingy crazy situations like the one pictured are part of the appeal, of course, so you would want to even it out too much and throw out the baby with the bathwater. Just a nip and tuck here that ensured more consistent amount of pressure from the enemies, rather than an early T2 climax and falling action, and this would be an all timer. It is still an all timer for me, but you need to be in its wheelhouse as an old-school ameritrash fan.<br>
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With some complaints out of the way, let me deploy some sugar. This game has dialed in the ability to give you toys. That's really important in this sort of game. My friend was drawing sick but expensive items that gave him god tier archery and it felt incredible. Everything is so dialed in in this game to make you stronger than the five units per hex make you feel. It generates this beautiful fist pumping energy because late game legions and hordes are so strong, but the game gives you all these copious ways to feel smart and overcome them.<br>
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Can't wait to get a copy of this. It Gets me, though the person I was playing with thought it was good not great, which I can't disagree with totally.<br>
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